Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 3 minute read • Article content These have been discouraging times; times of great uncertainty and stress, anxiety and fear, trial and tragedy. In many ways we’ve seen God at work, we’ve seen good things. Yet we wrestle at times because it can also seem so often that God is silent or distant when times are tough. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. But, we are designed by God to need encouragement. We are designed to rely on His ministry in our lives and our ministry in the lives of one another. And it takes us drawing down on God’s grace more and deeper all the time.